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Journal of Degraded and Mining Lands Management, 2021 South Africa has many artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) activities that some are registered and others informal and illegal. This paper presents an overview of ASM operations in the vicinity of abandoned mine sites found in Giyani and Musina areas ...
Sphiwe Emmanuel Mhlongo +1 more
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Cleaner Production Letters, 2023 Artisanal and small-scale gold mining is an important livelihood, but also the largest contributor to anthropogenic mercury emissions globally. Two key persistent challenges in reducing mercury use in artisanal and small-scale gold mining communities are
Arabella Chen +3 more
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Alternautas, 2022 Mining, right, to water, struggle, Amazon, Peru Since the 2008 financial crisis, increase in global demand and the price of gold have led to an expansion of industrial and artisanal gold mining (Swenson et al., 2011; World Gold Council, 2010). Worldwide,
Céline Delmotte
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Access to Land and Natural Resources in the Peruvian Amazon
Revue Internationale des Études du Développement, 2022 This article explores power relations between farmers and artisanal gold miners based on an analysis of a buffer zone in the Amazonian department of Madre de Dios (Peru), which has been experiencing a gold rush since the mid-2000s.
Céline Delmotte
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, 2021 This framework document provides a pragmatic approach for designing representative studies and developing uniform sampling guidelines to support estimates of morbidity that are explicitly linked to exposure to land-based contaminants from artisanal small-scale gold mining (ASGM) activities.
von Stackelberg, Katherine +2 more
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VertigO, 2023 In 2010, the Cotapata cooperative in Bolivia was the first artisanal mining organisation to sell "fair trade" gold globally, followed in the country by the "15 de agosto" cooperative and Yani.
Claude Le Gouill, Hernan Herbozo
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EchoGéo, 2021 The formalization of artisanal gold mining is recommended by the World Bank, which considers that it promotes the minimization of harmful impacts. According to some authors, mechanization and the high level of the price of gold internationally are ...
Edith Sawadogo +1 more
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Reducing Mercury and Increasing Gold in Artisanal Gold MInes
ISEE Conference Abstracts, 2020 Background: Thirty seven percent of global mercury (Hg) pollution stems from small-scale or artisanal gold mining (AGM) usually in impoverished rural communities in developing countries.
P.W. Appel, D.F. Goldsmith
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Jàmbá, 2019 Abandoned gold mine sites are generally characterised by severe environmental problems and physical hazards. Because of socio-economic problems confronting communities around abandoned mine sites, historic and abandoned gold mines have become hot-spots ...
Sphiwe E. Mhlongo +4 more
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Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation, 2022 Gold mining is a major driver of Amazonian forest loss and degradation. As mining activity encroaches on primary forest in remote and inaccessible areas, satellite imagery provides crucial data for monitoring mining‐related deforestation. High‐resolution
Eric Stoll +4 more
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